Ms Fleissig's daughtrer opened the bag expecting to find an ID, she instead found the firearm.'We got out of the car, we were kind of freaked out,' she told the paper. 'I didn't want to touch it.'Both women were stunned.'Oh my God, it's a gun,' Ms Fleissig's daughter said. 'I said, 'I think I'm going to throw up,' she recalled.

Fark It:Ms Fleissig's daughtrer opened the bag expecting to find an ID, she instead found the firearm.'We got out of the car, we were kind of freaked out,' she told the paper. 'I didn't want to touch it.'Both women were stunned.'Oh my God, it's a gun,' Ms Fleissig's daughter said. 'I said, 'I think I'm going to throw up,' she recalled.

Seriously?

Did you not view the image of the rifle? It features both a pistol grip and a collapsing stock. At any time it might have spontaneously caused several dozen people to fall over dead merely through proximity.

I am unable to determine whether the firearm also features a flash hider or threaded barrel, which of course would cause it to be even more volatile and dangerous.

factoryconnection:The women saw a weapon ditched in their car and feared the worse: that they'd be found in possession of someone's cast-off murder weapon. Who tosses aside a $2000 piece of hardware like that?

Well-heeled idiots and criminals, that's who. They feared the latter, and got all drama-queeny for the paper.

Well, someone who knows that an AR-15 is an assault rifle certainly knows more about the subject than someone who doesn't.

But an AR-15 isn't an assault rifle. An assault rifle has a clear, historic definition.

You could call it an assault weapon, like the Brady Campaign. That's a more subjective, feelings-based phrase that isn't demonstrably wrong.

Bullshiat. Eugene Stoner designed the AR-15 specifically to be an assault rifle. It's an assault rifle.

Even assuming that it's semi-automatic, the idea that a semi-automatic rifle stops being an assault rifle is idiotic. It's simple ignorance of grammar.

Even if the NRA was some sort of "official definer" of the English language, it would still be correct to define something that met the definition of an assault rifle except for not being selective fire with an adjective phrase, such as "semi-automatic".

Besides, the term "assault rifle" was made up by Germans during WW-II and they made semi-automatic assault rifles, so you are demonstrably wrong.

An "assault weapon" is a widely used phrase with a clear and well known meaning. it's even defined in law, unlike the term "assault rifle" It refers to battle rifles, assault rifles and submachine-guns that have been modified enough in an attempt to make them legal.

I especially live the idea that "assault weapon" is a "made up" phrase.

All language is "made up". I assume gun nuts think that LaPierre brought a dictionary carved on a rock that he had from a burning plant down from a mountain?

Well, someone who knows that an AR-15 is an assault rifle certainly knows more about the subject than someone who doesn't.

But an AR-15 isn't an assault rifle. An assault rifle has a clear, historic definition.

You could call it an assault weapon, like the Brady Campaign. That's a more subjective, feelings-based phrase that isn't demonstrably wrong.

Bullshiat. Eugene Stoner designed the AR-15 specifically to be an assault rifle. It's an assault rifle.

Even assuming that it's semi-automatic, the idea that a semi-automatic rifle stops being an assault rifle is idiotic. It's simple ignorance of grammar.

Even if the NRA was some sort of "official definer" of the English language, it would still be correct to define something that met the definition of an assault rifle except for not being selective fire with an adjective phrase, such as "semi-automatic".

Besides, the term "assault rifle" was made up by Germans during WW-II and they made semi-automatic assault rifles, so you are demonstrably wrong.

An "assault weapon" is a widely used phrase with a clear and well known meaning. it's even defined in law, unlike the term "assault rifle" It refers to battle rifles, assault rifles and submachine-guns that have been modified enough in an attempt to make them legal.

I especially live the idea that "assault weapon" is a "made up" phrase.

All language is "made up". I assume gun nuts think that LaPierre brought a dictionary carved on a rock that he had from a burning plant down from a mountain?

I don't even know where to begin with this. The Germans did make up the term "assault rifle," when they invented the "sturmgewehr" (STG-44), a select-fire weapon. That's the only weapon they referred to as "sturmgewehr." The definition of "assault weapon" is feelings-based and is different from state-to-state, bill-to-bill. Your definition of an "assault weapon" is different from any state or federal definition.

vpb:An "assault weapon" is a widely used phrase with a clear and well known meaning. it's even defined in law, unlike the term "assault rifle" It refers to battle rifles, assault rifles and submachine-guns that have been modified enough in an attempt to make them legal.

Right. Like in NJ a Marlin 60 .22LR rifle that has no military connection what so ever is an assault weapon.

vpb:Bullshiat. Eugene Stoner designed the AR-15 specifically to be an assault rifle. It's an assault rifle.

Even assuming that it's semi-automatic, the idea that a semi-automatic rifle stops being an assault rifle is idiotic. It's simple ignorance of grammar.

Even if the NRA was some sort of "official definer" of the English language, it would still be correct to define something that met the definition of an assault rifle except for not being selective fire with an adjective phrase, such as "semi-automatic".

Besides, the term "assault rifle" was made up by Germans during WW-II and they made semi-automatic assault rifles, so you are demonstrably wrong.

An "assault weapon" is a widely used phrase with a clear and well known meaning. it's even defined in law, unlike the term "assault rifle" It refers to battle rifles, assault rifles and submachine-guns that have been modified enough in an attempt to make them legal.

I especially live the idea that "assault weapon" is a "made up" phrase.

All language is "made up". I assume gun nuts think that LaPierre brought a dictionary carved on a rock that he had from a burning plant down from a mountain?

What difference does it really make anyway? There's too much focus on technical features and definitions and not how they're used and by whom.

Fark It:I don't even know where to begin with this. The Germans did make up the term "assault rifle," when they invented the "sturmgewehr" (STG-44), a select-fire weapon. That's the only weapon they referred to as "sturmgewehr." The definition of "assault weapon" is feelings-based and is different from state-to-state, bill-to-bill. Your definition of an "assault weapon" is different from any state or federal definition.

Reliance upon actual definition, rather than feelings, is dishonest and pedantic. If a firearm ban advocate "feels" that this is a deadly semi-automatic assault weapon with no legitimate civilian use, then it is, regardless of what any middling "facts" might dictate.

Similar incident. Several years ago I went to rent a car. While waiting for the assorted paperwork to be rendered for my car, the company gets a frantic call. Someone had left their handgun under the driver's seat in the car. One problem: the car had been rented again. About 4 hours before the call.

The rental company personnel had to make a call to these nice people who rented the car. I was able to overhear the call. The company person tried to be vague at first, saying something along the lines of "hey, you know that car we rented you? Yeah, well, if you would just go to the nearest police station, that would be totally awesome. Someone just happened to leave an item in the car. No biggie, right?" The people were apparently on their way to Orlando, and from this end it sounded like they didn't speak the best english in the world. Finally the company person had to come out and say what the item was, without having the renters freak out. From the sound of it, the renters took it rather well. About that time I was done and heading out so I never got to hear the end of the call. But when I took the car back I asked and they said the people were good about it, got the weapon out of the car, and the company comped them for the day.

They drove around with it in the rental car without noticing it for two days, which seems a little odd, but maybe they didn't have a lot of bags.

On the other hand, the dumb blonde not only forgot the gun in the back of the car, but didn't realize that she'd left it in the car for at least two days until the cops called and said "Uh, Ms. Tannehill, are you missing anything?" Dum dum.